Legalize Performance-Enhancing Drugs? Performance enhancing drugs are substances used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. The risks of so-called 'doping' are enormous. Sportspeople who use performance-enhancing drugs often suffer from heart and liver deseases and are more likely to have a heart attack, a stroke or cancer. Many of them die of exhaustion in the end of a competition. But why should we legalize PED’s? Sportspeople will always take drugs, there’s not a really chance to prevent doping. You can only try to make it safer, by legalizing PED’s. Experts could make sure, sportspeople aren’t taking dirty drugs, which jeopardize their health. Some people are worried, because only rich people will have enough money to buy PED’s, but rich sportspeople will always have an advantage.